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Nearly 500 feet above the Moyie River in northern Idaho, this bridge was constructed during the 1962-64 construction seasons and required much intestinal fortitude from the inspectors.
Approximately 30 years after Western Federal Lands Highway Division became involved in road improvement projects on the Prince of Wales Island, the ro...
Having a contractor unused to FHWA’s work ethic created interesting challenges for Project Engineer Gary Hunter. The fact that it was the first WFLH...
Moving the Federal Projects Division into Vancouver required a series of upgrades to the buildings and office space, and the Vancouver Newsletter chro...
This postcard describes events occurring while retiree Paul Anderson was working on a construction project on the North Cross-State Highway near Newha...
While employees of FHWA are building relationships with the public and our partners' front-line staff, managers dealing with their counterparts are se...
Over the years, there have been many changes to what is now known as the Federal Lands Highway Program. For a period of time, the Vancouver office Bur...
Our partner agencies have always helped the Federal Lands program succeed, and employees of BPR and FHWA have worked hard to deliver the product they ...
During the 1950's, Direct Federal construction management for the Northwest was housed in the Region Office in Portland, Oregon, with the head of the ...
Under ideal conditions, WFLHD staff all works together to get the job done. Project Development comes up with the design, Contracting writes the contr...
Jobs in remote areas were often prone to interruption by the whims of Mother Nature. Long distances or convoluted transportation between the camps and...
A number of retiree memories of construction and survey tent camps have been combined in other stories. Vern Ford shared the following experience duri...
Retirees' memories of the camps were not always centered around the work. When roads were being surveyed for the Libby Dam project in Montana, the cre...
There were several avenues to getting hired at the Bureau of Public Roads during the 1950's and 1960's. These included hiring on as a summer temporary...
The Bureau of Public Roads' instituted the Highway Engineer Training Program which was an important training and recruiting tool that has continued to...
One of the many roads to employment with the Bureau of Public Roads was to hire on as a summer temp. Scott Rustay took this route following his freshm...
Spending five summers as a temporary with the Bureau of Public Roads, Idaho Division, Scott Rustay had some choice experiences. He writes that “the ...
During the late 1960's, writes Glen Bedell, Federal agencies were beginning to discover the environment. He sent in this story about something that ha...
Approximately 30 years after Western Federal Lands Highway Division became involved in road improvement projects on the Prince of Wales Island, the ro...
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